Scissors and shears.



PATENTED MAIL-3, .1908.-

E. HUNOLD. SGISSORS AND SHEARS. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 15, 1907.

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SCISSORS AND SHEARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 3, 1908.

Application filed February 15. 1907- Serial No. 357-513- T 0 all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ERNEST HUNoLn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scissors and Shears, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to scissors and shears of all kinds, and has for its primary objects a means for lubricating the shear members at and adjacent to their pivotal points, to prevent excessive wear and binding of the parts, and means for cushioning the pivoted memers.

The invention consists in introducing an absorbent material within the inner face of one of the pivoted members.

It further consists in using as the absorbent a compressible material which will contact with the surface of the adjacent pivoted member.

In the drawings which constitute a part of these specifications Figure 1 is a top plan view of a pair of scissors or shears embodying my invention. Fig. 2-, a rear elevation of the same, and Fig. 3, a section of the same on line at x of Fig. 2.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

A and B represent the usual shear members, comprising respectively the blade portions, a and b; the body portions, a and b; and the finger loops or handles, a and V.

C is the connecting screw or other usual pivotal member.

he inner face of the body, I), of the shear member at a point between the screw and the handle has a circular cavity or seat, D, extending from whose base to the opposite face of the shear member, B, is an air passage, (1, of less diameter than that of the cavity, D. In the cavity is placed a compressible absorbent material, either fabric or fiber, but preferably felt, E, which rests upon the base of the cavity, and whose outer, portion contacts with the inner face of the body portion, a, of the shear member, A. The material, E, is saturated with oil, whereby the contacting surfaces of the shear members and the pivot members are supplied with a sufficient, but not excessive, supply of lubricant for an in definite period. The constant oil sup ly prevents the usual binding and wear of tfie body portions of the shear members. The felt or fiber, E, being compressible exerts a slight pressure upon the face of the shear member, A, thereby cushioning the parts, facilitating their cooperation, and protecting them from derangement by violent blows or jars when accidentally dropped. The air passage, d, facilitates the discharge of the lubricant from the absorbent material.

What I claim is,

1. In a pair of scissors or shears, the combination with the shear members, and their pivot, of a compressible lubricant saturated member confined wholly within one of said members only, to the rear of the pivot only, and contiguous to the adjacent faces of the two members.

2. In a pair of scissors or shears, the combination with the shear members, and their pivot, of a compressible lubricant saturated member confined wholly within one of said members only, to the rear of the pivot only, and contiguous to the adjacent faces of the two members, and means for facilitating the flow of the lubricant from said member.

3. In a pair of scissors or shears, the combination with the shear members and their pivotalconnection, of an absorbent lubricantsaturated material on one of the shear members only and disposed to the rear of the pivot only and adjacent the contacting surface of the other shear member.

4. In a pair of scissors or shears, the combination with the shear members and their pivotal connection, of a compressible fibrous absorbent lubricant-saturated material no one of the shear members only and disposed to the rear of the pivot only and adjacent the contacting surface of the other shear member.

5. In a pair of scissors or shears, the combination with the shear members and their pivotal connection, of an absorbent lubricantsaturated material on one of the shear members only and disposed to the rear of the pivot only and adjacent the contacting surface of the other shear member, the shear member in which the lubricant-saturated material is confined being provided with a contracted air passage to facilitate the discharge of the lubricant.

6. In a air of scissors or shears the combination wit the shear members and their pivotal connection, of a lubricating material seated in one of the shear members adjacent the oontactin surface of the other shear member, the st shear member having an air passage leading to the lubricating mate rial said passa e being of materially less dimension than t e lubricating material.

7. In a pair of scissors or shears, the combination with the shear members and their pivot of compressible absorbent means to the rear of the pivot only and in one member only for oiling and cushioning the cooperating parts, the member containing said ab sorbent means having a restricted air passage leading therefrom to facilitate the discharge; of the oil. 1

8. In a pair of scissors or shears the com- ERNEST HUNOLD. Witnesses:

HORATIO- E. BELLOWS', WALTER E. Goonwnv.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent N 0. 880,535, granted March 3, 1908,

upon the application of Ernest Hunold, of Providence, Rhode Island, for an improvement in Scissors and Shears, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction, as follows: In line 91, page 1, the word ":10" should read on; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office. Signed and sealed this 24th day of March, A. D., 1908.

[SEAL-1 O. G. BILLINGS,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

